Why Did We “Save the Whales”?

<p>&ldquo;Whale Carpaccio &mdash; 130 Kroner.&rdquo;</p> <p>Thus read an appetizer on a menu at a restaurant in Bergen, Norway, when I dined there a few years back. I wanted to sample this odd dish. What would the experience be like? Would the meat be chewy like pork, or flaky like fish?</p> <p>These were my thoughts when the waitress approached and asked (maybe a little sadistically?) if I&rsquo;d like to &ldquo;try the whale.&rdquo; But before I could signal my assent, somewhere in the back of my mind a fuzzy &rsquo;70s-era television memory arose &mdash; the image of a Greenpeace Zodiac bobbing on the high seas defensively poised between a breaching whale and a Soviet harpoon cannon. &ldquo;No,&rdquo; I said, &ldquo;I&rsquo;ll have the mussels.&rdquo;</p> <p><a href="https://4fishgreenberg.medium.com/why-did-we-save-the-whales-9836fe81be27"><strong>Click Here</strong></a></p>
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